LIGO- G Z E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 1 Education & Outreach Activities of the GriPhyN & iVDGL projects Manuela Campanelli & Joe Romano The University of Texas at Brownsville

LIGO- G Z GriPhyN and iVDGL E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 2 GriPhyN & iVDGL E/O Members GriPhyN E/O team: »Manuela Campanelli (coordinator) »Joe Romano »All GriPhyN members! iVDGL E/O team: »Manuela Campanelli »Keith Baker »Tim Olson »Rick Cavenaugh »All iVDGL Members! UT Brownsville: »MSI (90% of students are Hispanic) »Close ties with LIGO (LSC member institution) »Center for Research and Excellence Technology iVDGL Tier3 Centers: »UT Brownsville »Hampton University (Quarknet Center etc) »Salish Kootenai College (LIGO etc)

LIGO- G Z GriPhyN and iVDGL E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 3 Past Activities Hire E/O coordinator for GriPhyN: »UT Brownsville administration approved the hiring of a full-time tenure- track faculty member to serve as GriPhyN E/O coordinator. »Search began in Fall 2000; search complete in Spring »Manuela Campanelli hired to start Fall 2001: –Attended GGF1 and GriPhyN All-Hands meetings. –Made contacts with heads of dissemination programs for European data grid projects (e.g., DataGrid, EuroGrid) and ThinkQuest. –Helped prepare the iVDGL proposal, which will increase MSI participation in grid-related activities. Construct UT Brownsville Linux cluster: »Benchmarking for Linux cluster begins in Fall 2000 (primarily for LIGO data analysis, but can also serve as a testbed for GriPhyN software). »Construction of 96-node cluster complete in Fall 2001.

LIGO- G Z GriPhyN and iVDGL E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 4 Present Activities Development of E/O Web Site: `GriPhyN Education and Outreach Center ‘ »Basic educational material about data grids, information about the physics experiments, activities etc. »Reference point: has already been visited by several journalists and students. Spread News about GriPhyN/iVDGL: »Interview in`Financial times’ in Germany and ‘Brownsville Herald’ in Texas. »MOG article `Grid Physics, the Virtual Data Grid and LIGO ’ (Patrick Brady & Manuela Campanelli). »Organize “First E/O Meeting” (March 1, 2002) at UT Brownsville and encourage the participation of local schools and universities to it.

LIGO- G Z GriPhyN and iVDGL E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 5 Present Activities Grid-enable UT Brownsville Linux cluster: »Work with Scott Koranda (UW Milwaukee) as part of LIGO- GriPhyN to grid-enable UTB beowulf. »Undergraduate student (Sean Morris) at UTB currently learning how to install and run Condor, Globus, gridftp, etc. »Hiring a new graduate student (Santiago Pena) at UT Brownsville, who is very excited to do grid-related work! Increase MSI participation with iVDGL: »Construct/upgrade small clusters (Tier3 centers) at UT Bownsville, Hampton University, and Salish Kootenai College. »Support additional undergraduate and graduate students at these institutions. »Tier3 Centers need to discuss, coordinate and plan activities!

LIGO- G Z GriPhyN and iVDGL E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 6 Present / Future activities Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU): »Preparing a proposal for a REU supplement from NSF to support 10 to 20 undergraduate students doing grid-related research during the summer at the various GriPhyN/iVDGL Institutions. »Started to contact several interested mentoring Institutions: iGOG, TransPAC group at Indiana U (James Williams, John Hicks), Caltech (Harvey Newman, Eric Aslakson), Fermilab (Ruth Pordes), UW Milwaukee (Bruce Allen). »We propose to build a soft version of the VDT and simple databases to allow an easier access to students ! Extend E/O web site: »Add more technical support information (e.g., documentation, users manuals, “how-to” guides) as the VDT become ready. »Add web-based interface for accessing real data, illustrating some concepts of virtual data (e.g., website for SDSS data, and ).

LIGO- G Z GriPhyN and iVDGL E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 7 Present / Future activities Leverage existing E/O programs: »QuarkNet centers at Indiana U, U Florida, UT Arlington, Hampton U. Incorporate grid-related components into already existing activities. Keith Baker (Hampton U. ) will lead this activity. »EOT-PACI: discuss with Roscoe Giles (Boston U.), Scott Lathrop (NCSA) and Valerie Taylor (PI of Coalition to Diversify Computing project) to explore ways to link E/O activities. »ThinkQuest: talk with Harvey Newman and Eric Aslakson to develop special challenge projects based on application sciences and grid technology. Provide interesting data sets for ThinkQuest competitions. »SDSS Skyserver: Alex Szaley and Jordan Raddick (Johns Hopkins U) »Collaboration with E/O and dissemination programs of other grid projects (Susanna Tosi, Fabrizio Gagliardi).

LIGO- G Z GriPhyN and iVDGL E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 8 Present/Future Activities Workshops and tutorials: »Organize special E/O meetings,“how-to” workshops and tutorials at theTier3 centers. »“All-Hands Meeting” at a MSI to get a large number of minority students directly involved. (Propose UT Brownsville in Spring or Fall 2003.) Course development: »Include grid concepts in the classes we are teaching. »Identify interested MSIs and match with GriPhyN senior investigators who can give talks at these institutions.

LIGO- G Z GriPhyN and iVDGL E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 9 E/O Activities among Tier3 Centers Manuela Campanelli: »Coordination and planning (GriPhyN, iVDGL Tier 3 Centers). »Web Pages and CVS repositories. »Prepare a proposal for REU supplement. »Explore connection with E/O programs of LIGO, SDSS (UTB has strong interest in E/O astronomy because of the NASA and ENLACE programs), provide links to ThinkQuest. »Keep in touch with other European Projects (e. g. DataGrid, EUDG etc). Possible video documentary with members of European DataGrid and PPDG. »Organize how-to workshops and tutorials, All-Hands at MSI and special E/O days. »Construction and grid-enabling Linux clusters and introducing students to VDT and grid-related research projects.

LIGO- G Z GriPhyN and iVDGL E/O Meeting, March 1 (2002)LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 10 Coordinating E/O Activities among Tier3 Centers Tim Olson: »Work in E/O of SDSS ( e.g. SkyServer, Virtualsky) and LIGO, provide links to ThinkQuest. »Construction and grid-enabling Linux clusters and introducing students to VDT and grid-related research projects. Keith Baker: »Work with Rick Cavenaugh in E/O programs of CMS/ATLAS, PPDG, and QuarkNet, provide links to EOT-PACI. »Construction and grid-enabling Linux clusters and introducing students to VDT and grid-related research projects. All iVDGL/GriPhyN Members: »Give talks at other US institutions, in particular MSI (All-Hands meetings at MSI is an opportunity!) »Introduce grid concepts in their courses. »Mentoring REU students during summer months. »Provide data samples and research projects to E/O coordinators for EOT-PACI and ThinkQuest programs.

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